Category: Other Crypto News

ICE to Launch Oil Perpetual Futures With OKX

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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is working with crypto exchange OKX to launch trading of oil-linked perpetual futures. OKX said Friday it plans to introduce perpetual futures based on ICE’s Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude benchmarks, two of the world’s most widely used oil price indicators, according to a release shared with Cointelegraph. “These new OKX perpetual contracts, based on ICE’s deep, liquid, transparent, and global oil markets, allow OKX’s customer base […] to access energy benchmark products,” said Trabue…

MARA Spent $4.3M on CEO Security as Crypto Attacks Rise

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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings spent $4.3 million on personal security for CEO Fred Thiel in 2025, including $430,780 to armor a vehicle, as crypto companies respond to rising physical attacks on industry executives and investors. MARA, the seventh-largest Bitcoin mining company worth more than $5 billion, also spent about $58,810 on Thiel’s home security installations and reported additional expenses related to the security measures of other executives, according to its DEF 14A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30. The filing shows that MARA spent a…

ETH bears growling, Tom Lee’s buying, XRP to ‘explode’: Market Moves

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Nearly 10% of Bitcoin supply is ‘structurally unsafe’ from quantum breakthrough: Glassnode Nearly 10% of the total Bitcoin supply is considered “structurally unsafe” from a quantum computing breakthrough, as their output type reveals the public key by design, regardless of address management practices, according to data analytics platform Glassnode. Totaling about 1.92 million Bitcoin (BTC), the group includes BTC from early Satoshi-era Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) outputs, legacy multi-sig structures such as Pay-to-Multisig (P2MS) and modern Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs, which reveal the public key or public key-equivalent by design, wrote Glassnode in…

Space X IPO Is ‘Bad News’ for Tech Stocks: But What About Bitcoin?

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Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is planning a $75 billion IPO in June, which could make it the largest near-term public listing with a major Bitcoin treasury. Key takeaways: A Nasdaq 100 fast entry could expand Bitcoin exposure among the top mega-cap stocks, including Tesla. The IPO may pressure tech stocks as passive funds sell existing Nasdaq names to buy SpaceX, which may prove bearish for Bitcoin. SpaceX IPO set to increase Nasdaq’s exposure to Bitcoin SpaceX disclosed 18,712 BTC in its recent S-1 filing, worth roughly $1.45…

DeFi Hacks Shake Institutional Confidence as Risks Outpace Yields

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Security exploits are weighing on institutional appetite for decentralized finance (DeFi), even as broader crypto adoption continues through stablecoins and tokenized assets. In an April research note, JPMorgan analysts said that bridge security remains a challenge for the industry, raising questions on whether DeFi can grow to support further institutional adoption.  The recent exploit on the Versus-Ethereum bridge was the eighth major attack against DeFi bridges in 2026 so far, with cumulative losses totalling $328.6 million. DeFi bridges remain prime targets for hackers seeking to steal millions of dollars. Source:…

THORChain’s $10M Exploit Caused by MPC Vulnerability, Private Key Leak

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THORChain said a malicious node operator exploited a vulnerability in its GG20 threshold signature system to drain about $10.7 million from one of the protocol’s vaults. The GG20 threshold signature scheme is used to secure THORChain vaults by splitting key control across multiple node operators, meaning no single node normally holds the full private key. The vulnerability allowed the malicious node operator to reconstruct a full private key for one vault, through “progressive key material leakage,” the protocol said in a post-mortem report released on Wednesday. THORChain said its automatic…

Bitcoin Price Breaks 14-Year Support For The First Time In History, Analyst Predicts $50,000 Target

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Crypto analyst Phila has predicted that the Bitcoin price could see a massive decline to $55,000 after breaking a 14-year support level. This comes amid BTC’s fall below the psychological $80,000 level, with the leading crypto now at risk of dropping to new lows.  Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Price Drop To $55,000 Amid Breakdown In an X post, Phila stated that the Bitcoin price just broke a support level that has held for 14 years, noting that it had held in previous bear cycles. The analyst further remarked that this is…

XRP May Be Headed For A Stunning Year-End Surge, This CEO Says

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A 30% rise in investor interest. That is part of what Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg is predicting for XRP before December, on top of a price that he believes could double from where it stands today. The Road To Year End McClurg, who leads one of the first firms to file for a spot XRP exchange-traded fund in the US, laid out a three-phase path he expects the market to follow over the rest of 2026. The near term, he said, will be rough. Summer is expected to bring…

XRP Ledger Activity Surges, But What Is Stopping Price Breakout?

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XRP Ledger has seen a spike in new addresses over the last 24 hours, but overhead resistance at $1.40 kept the XRP (XRP) price in check. Key takeaways: XRP Ledger added 4,300 new wallets in 24 hours, marking the fourth-largest growth spike on the network in 2026. XRP price recovery may face resistance at $1.40, with a prolonged consolidation likely. XRP Ledger sees fourth-largest growth spike in 2026 The XRP Ledger recorded one of its strongest growth surges of the year after adding 4,300 new wallets within 24 hours, the…

HYPE Is Up 130% In 2026 — But This Top Analyst Sees A Dangerous Setup Forming Around $60

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Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has surged 55% in a single week and delivered more than 130% in year-to-date returns — but prominent crypto analyst Ali Martinez (@alicharts) is warning that the asset is now approaching a critical resistance zone with multiple technical indicators flashing sell signals simultaneously, a setup he says could trigger a retracement toward $40 if momentum fades at current levels. Related Reading In a post on X, Martinez laid out the technical case with precision. Three converging signals are appearing on HYPE at the same time: the TD…